Was a Noah's Ark a pirate ship? - Uhh, no, it wasn't, and not only was it not, the Torah teaches that Noah's righteousness was predicated on standing against the World's worst era of a generation of thieves.
Noah was the anti-thief.
Yet in our day, we are witnessing perhaps the worst society in terms of stealing, since perhaps the days of Noah himself. Piracy is everywhere in our smart internet society, and one must realize the Holy One Blessed Be He does not like this. Stealing brought the flood, and here we are - apparently not having learned from history.
The Talmud's Bava Kama states upon its conclusion that thievery is the most severe...
